Sriram Krishnan

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The a16z Show · Sriram Krishnan on Open Source AI's Biggest Week Yet · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

I don't know their version number, but the first version of that model.

which I think is nearly SOTA on many, many benchmarks.

But I think the big news over the last three, four days was obviously Kimi K3 coming out, I think on Thursday or Friday.

And then I think the last 24 hours, I haven't really played with it yet, but Quinn coming out.

So there's a lot of choices and alternatives coming out.

And what I was referring to with Kimi K3 is the following.

One is that it's just great to have choice in the ecosystem and to be able to point your harness of choice or your agent of choice to multiple models.

Second, I think we are in this really weird moment now

where some of the American frontier models are constrained.

For example, on cyber and on security.

And I was talking to a friend of mine where this person was actually starting to do security work using Kimmy K3 rather than Fable because with Fable, he would run into these refusals and safeguards.

So that seems like a very weird spot to be, which we can talk about for a second.

I think it's probably inevitable that if you are having choices from where you get your intelligence tokens from, that's going to put pricing pressure on the frontier models, which means I think you'll probably see the frontier labs have to

drop token prices or find ways to, you know, find ways to match pricing, which means it's probably going to erode into their gross margin.

It's probably great for the Neo Clouds and every other layer of the stack, because if you're a Neo Cloud, like,

a base 10 or a fireworks, or if you just have a bunch of black walls and you can power it in, you can run that and, you know, you can capture some of the economics, which is probably going to go to the Frontier Lab.

So I think it's great as a consumer.

I think it's great for the ecosystem.

Lots of, obviously, questions on security, on distillation, on, you know, how this is good.

But a very, very interesting moment.

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